VegAAS

VegASS...from a really long time ago...

My time at CMC before we drove out was basically a repeat of a typical college day: got into the airport, was picked up by Yohei, went to Ralphs, Purchased alcohol, grilled and drank on green beach, went to the apartments, blacked out, woke up on a couch (I think it was Kauhrana's) to Abby calling me at five am, stumbled back to Abby's, drove to vegas while drinking to keep my buzz at a non-hangover level.

The highlights of vegas were definitely Rehab, Bare and then the night we went out. oh and I didn't mention the MOST IMPORTANT HIGHLIGHT. wait for it....I got to eat In-n-out. NEI LEPSHI

Rehab: we got a Cabana since there were 8 of us, about 70 each, which was the way to go for sure since all of that 70 goes towards drinks and then you don't have to pay cover. We made friends with our neighbors who were very liberal with their Dom, and had awesome stories about getting kidnapped by MILF in the Philippines (thats the rebel group not the normal abbreviation). My not-ever-sobering-up plan didn't work so well since it made me more prone to passing out, which I did three times. It just looked like I was sunbathing though so it took them quite a while for the rest to figure out that I was asleep. Afterward I drunkenly ordered Ali to drive us to In-N-Out, which was the greatest experience of my life to this date. Better than the time when I found 3 grand.

Where: Hard Rock Hotel (off the Strip) $ 15-25 cover, $ 500 cabanas

The mothership of fun

me "tanning" at Rehab

Bare: Bare is the swanky "adult" pool in the Mirage; there's a daily person limit so on crowded days you either have to be hot as a girl or have enough money to pay the exorbitant 50 dollar cover for guys. We again got a day bed since we're pimps. The place got a bit over crowded since it was a saturday but it was pretty fun people watching since there were lots of trashy girls with their tops off making out with people. This one girl went through five different guys, and then the attendant told her she had to leave...it was hilarious.

Where: Bare at the Mirage, on the strip. $100 for chairs, 600 for day bed, 2,000 for cabana

Pure: Had a slight bit of trouble getting into Pure since the line was uber long and Perriface and I don't deal well with lines, but we luckily got behind a group that was getting ushered in VIP and just went with them. Pure is kinda a bitch to get in unless you have reservations or a table, or you are wiley like us. Wandered around for a while then found a table on the roof bar with a few cool canadian guys down from Winnipeg. Well, two of them were cool, but the one I got stuck talking to was an Emo, luckily he could take a hint and wandered off sloppily to find another girl who might possibly like his heavily manicured and highlighted hair, if there is such a girl, I doubt it. We all called him highlights the rest of the night..even his friends, I'm thinking the name might stick even after they go home.

Canadians

View of the Strip from our table

In the Jungle outside of Jet

Recovery

Not unlike Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan, I have spent the past two days in rehab.  But unlike them, what led to mine was my great desire to see the great cultural relics of china, kind of. 

Rehab means watching movies, cleaning my room, taking my vitamins, and eating ice cream. 

I also spent a good 6 hours trying to straighten out my: I-have-no-return-ticket-from-vietnam-sitch, which in the past 24 hours actually denigrated into:  an I-do-not-even-have-a-one-way-tic-to-vietnam-sitch.  Apparently I waited too long to verify my credit card information so they canceled my flight to Vietnam.  

So I began looking again.... I finally found a great round trip flight to Hanoi and spent a few minutes filling out the tedious information required to book, excited that I would now have a a vacation.  Not so.  A nice little error message came up informing me that "the name of passenger 1 could only be made up in English!" 

I then tried to book on the US Air China site instead since the chinese site wouldn't accept my name as not "being made up in English".  The ticket on the US side was $1000 more!! --Ridiculous form of somehow semi-legal price discrimination.   After a few more hours of angry searching I found a really good website called Wego.com , you should try it out; they use squirrels instead of an algorithm, apparently thats a good business strategy since they work for nuts not dollars.   So here are the places I am going as it stands right now: Hanoi, Halong Bay, HCMC, Mekong Delta, and Phu Quoc Island. If you have been to any of these places and have suggestions i.e: that place sucked, or: I got the best acid of my life there!! (just kidding mom), then tell me cause I would love to have any info on Vietnam since I know nothing about it.  

Im about to hit up some bars with my new FRIENDS!! (which isn't saying that much though since they are all guys.. much easier to make friends with than girls... but its a start)

oh I've also been in Beijing exactly one month.  Crazyness!!!

P.P.S : Check out the igoogle themes by Edward Monkton, in particular the "Madness Hamsters" I am obsessed. 

Ciao